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To Have and To Hold

Summary:

A poetry-art collab with GaHellHimself for the GOetry Pillow Fight with the prompt "Cuddles"

Aziraphale muses about his love while wrapped up at the bookshop.

Notes:

Huge thanks to Isiaiowin for wrangling this fantastic event!

And massive props to GaHellHimself for bringing this poem to life with his incredible art.

(See the end of the work for more notes.)

Work Text:

Wrapped up and bound,
I have found that
The sound you make
When you’re waking
Will break my plans to do anything. 

Instead I sit, 
Read a bit with
Lamp lit and hand
Stroking, spanned ‘cross
The band of you, all sleek shine and gloss

My scaly dear
Coiling here, with
No fear of hurt.
You are worth care,
Deserve to be guarded, gift most rare. 

So take your rest. 
Dream your best, love.
This breast won’t yield;
My flesh shields thine—
I’d wield my sword to protect what’s mine.

Bound up and trapped,
Fully wrapped up,
Held captive by you—
But we two are
A group, and I’m happy here, my heart.

Notes:

This is a riff on ya-du — a Burmese poetic form with a climbing rhyme scheme — chosen specifically because it made me (Fork) think of Burmese pythons. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Thanks to Koala2all for the poetry beta!

Find GaHellHimself and On1OccasionFork on Tumblr.

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